CBC’s ‘shocking docs’ series kicks off tonight

Talk about alternative viewing choices. Throughout August, CBC Newsworld is airing 14 Passionate Eye documentaries that are all billed as potentially shocking. Included are tonight's The Big V, a look at men and women who choose celibacy, new looks at the world's first atomic attack on Hiroshima and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as a doc about Prince Harry's work with orphans in Lesotho (both timed to coincide with the International AIDS Conference that kicks off in Toronto Aug. 13). Also in the series are Frankensteer, an examination of the factors that are producing bovine diseases, Runaway Grooms and New Orleans: Anatomy of a Disaster.
By Staff 
August 1, 2006

Talk about alternative viewing choices. Throughout August, CBC Newsworld is airing 14 Passionate Eye documentaries that are all billed as potentially shocking. Included are tonight’s The Big V, a look at men and women who choose celibacy, new looks at the world’s first atomic attack on Hiroshima and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as a doc about Prince Harry’s work with orphans in Lesotho (both timed to coincide with the International AIDS Conference that kicks off in Toronto Aug. 13). Also in the series are Frankensteer, an examination of the factors that are producing bovine diseases, Runaway Grooms and New Orleans: Anatomy of a Disaster.